For the last show of the year, we have invited Johan Rosenmunthe and Markus von Platen to create a collaborative special experimental crossover between science and art. The title Core, Mantle, Crust refers to the earth's various structural layers - from the core to the mantle and then the surface - and by using media such as sculpture, installation and video, the two remarkable artists have created a number of unconventional works that might create new, abstract relations between archaeological theory, concepts of time, technology and visual arts.

One of the exhibition's special features are a number of distinctive sulphur-sculptures on display in large display cases, some of which are equipped with ventilation pipes, so the sulphur vapours enters Nordkraft’s ventilation system. The works are created based on an interdisciplinary research project in sulphur-based cast processes, developed in collaboration with students from the Department of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering at Aalborg University, under the direction of associate professors Mads Jørgensen Koustrup and Thorbjørn Terndrup Nielsen. By using different materials and mixing ratios, it is possible to create a variety of special shapes and new, visual expressions in different substantive stages.

The extensive exhibition in Kunsthal NORD will also accommodate a specially designed cinema where the audience can lie down on special-made couches and experience an intimate and slow visual movement through a 3D animated stone cave. The two artists 25 minutes long video, A time of irregular pulsation between the appearance and disappearance of rhythms, is displayed on a screen high up near the ceiling and premieres in Kunsthal NORD.

The largest room in Kunsthal NORD is transformed into a dystopian ‘sculpture park’ with various three-dimensional works created by unconventional, industrial materials such as polystyrene, polymer plaster, aluminium, rubber, PU foam and latex supplemented with air pumps, lobular and black mirrors. Several of the objects ‘breathes’ through a primitive respirator that supplies them with rhythmic movements.

In an adjoining room, you will be able to enjoy Johan Rosenmunthes large scanned images of organic and inorganic material. The wealth of detail is enormous, and it can be hard to get a handle on the size ratio. In Kunsthal NORDs new exhibition room, we display Markus von Platen's video installation BTCWOWGOLD that thematises extraction of digital currency in Asia. 3D renderings, in-game artefacts and sound effects from World of Warcraft mix with landscape photographs and excerpts from conversations and interviews with Bitcoin experts and World of Warcraft gamers.

With their current exhibition Johan Rosenmunthe and Markus von Platen wants to explore how the patterns of science and systems can be reinterpreted as an artistic expression that challenges both professionals and not least the public perception of what art is and can be.